Example sentences for: dixon

How can you use “dixon” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Mason & Dixon , Pynchon's epic about the 18 th -century surveyors of America, tops most lists.

  • Prudie couldn't agree with you more--and she is on the other side of the Mason-Dixon line.

  • For honesty's sake, any early criticism of Thomas Pynchon's new novel, Mason & Dixon , ought to be labeled "provisional" or "tentative."

  • Written in 18 th century English ("magical" is spelled "magickal," for example, and the predominant punctuation marks are the dash and the apostrophe), it tells the picaresque tale of two astronomers best known for surveying the Mason-Dixon line, which separates Pennsylvania from Maryland and the American cultural North from the cultural South.

  • As I said, it should take any normal human being at least two weeks to get through Mason & Dixon --but that begs the question of whether Pynchon's writings are intended for normal human beings.


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